The Pleasure of Being Robbed

20082008
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1h 11m

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A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.

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6.1/10

1.9K

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Director
- Josh Safdie
Writers
- Josh Safdie(story by)
- Eleonore Hendricks(co-screenplay)
- Andy Spade(co-story)
Stars

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Awards
- 5 wins & 3 nominations

Trivia
Originally conceived as a short film advertising Kate Spade handbags.

Connections
Referenced in The Spirited Man: Kickstarter (2021)

Soundtracks
Pannonica
Written and Performed by Thelonious Monk
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By Arrangement with Song BMG Music Entertainment
Publishing rights courtesy of BMI Thelonious Music Inc.

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Featured review

5/10

A movie where the backstory is more interesting than the film itself

Perhaps I've watched too many 2000s Williamsburg hipster flicks lately, but this one was a real tedious experience. There's certainly something intriguing about the feeling of dull desolation that characters like her, Francis Ha, and the girl in Eternal Sunshine invoke. It's a sort of, life's not that bad, but it's not that good either - a feeling that many people can relate to, especially the Passion Pit stans of the aughts. That said, it's difficult to feel sympathy or even irritation with the characters in this movie. They're aloof, they're flighty, they're criminals in the most pedestrian sense. You don't feel a connection with the characters, and maybe that's the point: they're dull mundane version of living on the fringe is a greater story about the boring dystopia that is America and youth culture. Maybe. Though, like with Frances Ha, it reads a bit more like at some point in history this mentality was cool or edgy. Sort of a last celebration of shoplifting graphic tees from Zumiez and sneaking into the mall movie theatre: it seems like a big deal while you're doing it, doesn't really matter to anybody else..

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